National Affairs: Irish Belittled

Two able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl
garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They
grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their
children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle
the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the
children do get married.

To all true-blooded Irish men and women,
such activity is neither funny nor characteristic—said the Irish World
of New York last week. That newspaper demanded that all cinema...